Jonathan Capehart Jonathan Capehart is an award-winning journalist anchor of The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart on MSNBC and also an opinion writer and member of the editorial board of The Washington Post, where he hosts the podcast, Cape Up. In 1999, he was a member of the editorial board at the New York Daily News that won a Pulitzer Prize for the paper’s series of editorials that helped save Harlem’s Apollo Theater. The Advocate magazine, in 2014, ranked him ninth out of 50 of the most influential LGBT people in media. Mr. Capehart joined The Washington Post in 2007, as a journalist and editorial board member. There, he wrote the PostPartisan blog and served as a contributor for MSNBC. He also served as a substitute anchor on many MSNBC programs, including AM Joy, The Cycle, Martin Bashir, and Way Too Early, and appeared regularly on Hardball and other programs. In May 2018, the publisher of The Washington Post awarded him an “Outstanding Contribution Award” for his opinion writing and Cape Up podcast interviews. Prior to joining The Washington Post, Mr. Capehart was a senior vice president and senior counselor of public affairs for Hill & Knowlton; deputy editorial page editor, the New York Daily News; a national affairs columnist for Bloomberg News; and a policy advisor for Michael Bloomberg in his successful 2001 campaign for Mayor of New York City. Mr. Capehart has been a member of the Reporters Roundtable on ABC News' This Week with George Stephanopoulos, as well as the host of America on the Line on WNYC New York Public Radio. He has served as a moderator at the Aspen Ideas Festival and for the Aspen Institute, the Center for American Progress and at the Brussels Forum of the German Marshall Fund. He has moderated sessions at the Atlantic’s Washington Ideas Forum and for the Connecticut Forum, and was a fellow at the Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service. Mr. Capehart received his B.A. degree in political science from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. .